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I didn’t plan on becoming particle physicists’ enemy number one, but somehow I have. Here’s how it all happened.
Dr Hannah Fry arms herself with a hammer to test out the difference between toughened and ordinary glass. What's the secret ...
In part one of our interview, Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the ...
Thanks to Galilean relativity it should be just as hard to run on an inclined treadmill as it is to run on a hill of the same ...
When seawater and freshwater mix, a surprising amount of energy is released. Norway tried to capture this energy using an osmotic power plant, but the plant mysteriously and abruptly s ...
A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of ...
A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according ...
A team from the Max Planck Research Group for Systems Immunology at the University of Würzburg has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results, published in Science, ...
There's little point in buying an electric vehicle if you're charging it with electricity generated by fossil fuels. In fact, when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, your EV may be doing more harm ...
There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of ev ...
Researchers have succeeded, for the first time, in displaying three-dimensional graphics in mid-air that can be manipulated ...
Northwestern University researchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by ...